Education: Bachelor's degree or related field
- Research, evaluate and analyze emerging technology trends and manufacturing methods to identify opportunities for innovation in IT and across the organization that drives improved productivity, cost reduction and/or enhanced product quality.
- Evaluate the potential of new tools, methodologies, and practices to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes.
- Collaborate with engineering, production, quality, and finance teams to identify process inefficiencies and develop innovative solutions.
- Support digital transformation initiatives such as automation, robotics, IoT integration, and data-driven manufacturing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional department to generate and manage pipeline of innovation ideas.
- Develop and maintain documentation for innovation projects, prototypes, and intellectual property considerations.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business challenges and propose technology-driven solutions.
- Facilitate brainstorming sessions, workshops, and innovation labs to promote a culture of innovation.
- Collect and analyze data to measure the effectiveness of new technologies and solutions. - Map current processes, baseline KPIs
- Support the planning, execution, and evaluation of pilot projects, proof-of-concepts, and innovation initiatives.
- Work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure feasibility, compliance, and scalability of solutions.
- Prepare presentations, reports, and business cases to communicate findings and recommendations to leadership.
- Assist in change management and communication efforts to ensure adoption of new technologies.
- Maintain confidentiality and adhere to company compliance and IT security standards.
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- Strong understanding of IT systems, digital tools, and project lifecycles.
- Exposure to data analysis, automation tools, or continuous improvement concepts is a plus.
- Familiarity with governance, privacy and security practices
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to critically evaluate technical designs, vendor proposals, and solution architectures to identify risks, gaps, feasibility issues, and unrealistic assumptions.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear technical concepts, high-level requirements, or prototype workflows.
- Comfort digging into technical details, diagnosing issues across applications, integrations, data flows, and automation platforms, and proposing pragmatic solutions.
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to evaluate ROI, scalability, long-term maintainability, and operational impact of new technologies.
- Exposure to modern programming/scripting such as Python, C#/.NET, SQL, or similar for automation and integrations.
- Familiar with Azure services and Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse).
- Experience with OCR, Intelligent Document Processing, or AI-assisted workflow automation Job Requirement
- Willingness to travel occasionally to manufacturing sites to provide on-site support. (10%)
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